Today's Tidbit... Interceptions As Incompletions

As forward passing became more common in the mid-1910s, it continued suffering from football conservatism. An example of conservatism was the general practice of not throwing forward passes until your team crossed midfield. Given the relative unreliability of forward passing at the time, coaches instructed their quarterbacks not to call passing plays in the danger zone. The example chart from 1919 guides quarterbacks not the throw the ball on the wrong side of midfield. In fact, throwing before ...